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Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers : Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs /
"Using a brisk conversational style, Michael Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pe...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Fair ball! : why adjustments are needed
- 2. Manager's game plan : method for identifying the best batters
- 3. New ball! : historical changes in offensive events
- 4. Calling it a career : examining player aging
- 5. Talent search : measuring the spread in player performance
- 6. Home park advantage : a closer look at park effects
- 7. Swing, batter! : adjusting batting average
- 8. Hit ... and run : adjusting double and triple totals
- 9. This one's outta here! : adjusting home run totals
- 10. Changing the score : adjusting run and RBI totals
- 11. The count : adjusting walk and strikeout totals
- 12. Stealing the show : adjusting stolen base totals.